According to The Hill, McCarthy blamed protests against police brutality in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and Charlotte, N.C., for creating a “political atmosphere of anti-police sentiment.”

“So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,” McCarthy said during a radio interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York on Sunday.

“Less than half of 1 percent of all the shootings in this city involve police officers shooting civilians.”

McCarthy was fired last year from his position as Police Chief over the controversy caused by a fatal police-involved shooting in October 2014 of a black 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald.